determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
betray his presence
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The slightest sound might betray his presence .
craned his neck
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He craned his neck above the crowd to get a better view.
gets his just deserts (= is punished in the way he deserves )
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I hope that he’s caught and gets his just deserts .
in his younger days (= when he was younger )
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John was a great footballer in his younger days .
in the palm of his hand
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He held the pebble in the palm of his hand .
killed...with his bare hands
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He had killed a man with his bare hands .
peddling his wares (= selling his goods )
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a door-to-door salesman peddling his wares
sprang to his feet (= stood up suddenly )
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He sprang to his feet and rushed after her.
straight to his face (= speaking directly to him )
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I told him straight to his face what I thought of him.
with a pained expression on his face
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He sat stiffly, with a pained expression on his face .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
England expects that every man will do his duty
God is in his heaven, all's right with the world
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
What's your/his etc problem?
Your/Her/His Highness
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Besides, I don't want anything from you, Your Highness .
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But that's the deal, Your Highness .
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No, Your Highness , you are, of course, welcome to stay.
Your/Her/His Majesty
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His Majesty , King Juan Carlos I
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How do you like the White House, Your Majesty ?
Your/His Eminence
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Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler.
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Let me understand this, your eminence .
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We are a young world, your eminence .
Your/His Holiness
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The miracles which have since occurred at his grave have confirmed his holiness .
Your/His Worship
Your/His Worship
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Dionysus came to Thebes to establish his worship there.
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Does the worshipper who begins to reflect on his worship become less of a worshipper?
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His Dark Elf followers have given themselves over entirely to his worship .
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When his worship spread to a town where there was already a divine ruler the two were slowly fused into one.
Your/His etc Grace
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It is a manifestation of his grace , his gift to those who will receive it.
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It may rain again, Your Grace .
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Now, more than twenty years later, the Breton presbyter had lost none of his grace or his repose.
Your/His/Her Excellency
Your/His/Her Honour
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At a lunch in his honour , friends and former rivals gathered to pay him tribute.
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Festivals in his honour are marked by a plethora of flowers, and the lusciously scented frangipani is held sacred to him.
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He was laid to rest in a grave at his settlement on the riverbank and a shrine was raised in his honour .
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In 1817 the Dublin Society struck a gold medal in his honour .
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She said: Our Blessed Lady asked me to ask you to have a small chapel built here in her honour .
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The lectures are named in his honour and organisers hope to attract big names in the future.
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This year a memorial hall was built in his honour at his birthplace, Yaotsu.
a fool and his money are soon parted
a man of his word
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He was a man of his word, and I had great respect for his intellect.
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But Dan is a man of his word.
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Crazy Horse was a man of his word and was furious at the duplicity of the white man....
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He was, as much as was possible in a world where the buck was almighty, a man of his word.
an Englishman's home is his castle
as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her
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She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
at His/Her Majesty's pleasure
be yours/hers/his etc alone
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Even when your growing brain shared my blood, your dreams were yours alone .
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She had never helped with any of the bills, so he felt that the house was his alone .
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The next job was his alone .
do your/his/her/their worst
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Let her do her worst to reach him.
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Sometimes they successfully slowed or blocked the path of the conquistadores when these exploiters were out to do their worst .
each to his/their own
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Fathers should customize each to their own particular needs and situation.
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It is a case of each to his own cell with no slopping out.
every dog has its/his day
for my/his part etc
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Curtis, for his part , wished he felt as confident as he had tried to sound.
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Gates, for his part , says he tries not to stray too far from talking about technology.
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I for my part have some difficulty in accepting that.
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I, for my part , would take the second of the two roads.
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Kennedy, for his part , seemed open to the reasonable accommodation.
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Mr McLean, for his part , will offer a guilty plea to the charge of actual bodily harm.
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My grandfather, for his part , had found lodgings for the two boys through an advertisement in a church magazine.
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Nick, for his part , really wants to live.
his lordship
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He had assumed his lordship like any other feudal lord.
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It was clear to him that if he said he could, his lordship would take him.
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Jun. 805, where his Lordship dismissed a petition to expunge the proof of a surety against the estate of a co-surety.
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Madeleine said she didn't mind, but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil.
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Naturally, his lordship was greatly distressed and immediately made plans to dispatch funds and commiserations to Frau Bremann.
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The porter was reprimanded and a humble apology was presented to his Lordship .
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Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job.
his/her etc eyes were popping (out of his/her etc head)
his/her nibs
my/his/your etc word
sb can't do sth to save his/her life
sb puts his pants on one leg at a time
that's your/his etc problem
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Anyway, that's your problem .
the world and his wife
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It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid.
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Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife, anyway.
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Now all the world and his wife seems to have heard of them!
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Only all the world and his wife, if I know Igor.
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The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
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This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on.
to his/her fingertips
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A calm emanated from the place, moving down through his torso and out to his fingertips .
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A tiny knot of tension throbbed at the back of her neck, running the length of her arms to her fingertips .
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He was a musician to his fingertips and he had a very subtle understanding of the interplay of characters on the stage.
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The spark ing leapt to his fingertips , and he was in her trance, his own skin alert to hers.
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There was a glorious sunset rush of pure-blooded warmth all over her back and right down to her fingertips .
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Though since Cara was a professional to her fingertips she supposed that she would.
what's his face/what's her face
what's his/her/its name
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What about your commitment to - what's his name?
worth his/her salt
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A cop worth his salt wouldn't take a bribe.
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Any journalist worth her salt would have got scads more out of the tall Czechoslovakian than she had, she thought glumly.
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No brass worth her salt was even up before twelve-thirty!
your/his lordship
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Jun. 805, where his Lordship dismissed a petition to expunge the proof of a surety against the estate of a co-surety.
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Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
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The reason you want to see his lordship has nothing to do with gratitude and you know it.
your/his/her Royal Highness